Cashless welfare card harms Aussies: study

By Rebecca Gredley
Updated February 26 2020 - 1:38pm, first published 12:44pm
Welfare cards quarantine most of the Centrelink payments so money can only be spent on essentials.
Welfare cards quarantine most of the Centrelink payments so money can only be spent on essentials.

Cashless debit cards forced on welfare recipients do more harm than good, an independent study into the system has found.

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